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About Denis Atkinson
- Denis St Eval Atkinson (9 August 1926 – 9 November 2001) was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches as an all-rounder, hitting 922 runs and taking 47 wickets.
- He also played first-class cricket for Barbados and Trinidad. Atkinson holds the Test record for the highest seventh-wicket partnership – as captain, he made a stand of 347 with Clairmonte Depeiaza against Australia in 1954–55 to put up a total of 510 in the first innings of a drawn match.
- Atkinson also led West Indies to a series win in New Zealand the following year. He also holds the record for bowling the highest number of wicketless overs in a Test innings.
- He recorded 72 overs, 29 maidens, no wicket for 137 runs for the West Indies against England at Edgbaston, Birmingham, in 1957.When Gary Sobers was a boy Atkinson encouraged him by asking him to bowl to him at practice.
- Atkinson, who played for the Wanderers Cricket Club in Barbados, was able to leave work at his insurance office early for extra batting practice, and he used to put a shilling on top of the stumps and tell Sobers he could have it if he knocked it off.
- Sobers said, "it was through him that I eventually received recognition".His younger brother Eric also played Test cricket.
- Eric's first Test, against Pakistan at Bridgetown in 1957–58, was Denis's last.
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